This important list of Wordpress Plugins will help you to work better and faster within your own blog. I use the same plugins here at this blog, that’s why I recommend it to you.

1. AllInOneSEOPack - This will automatically optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). Highly recommended to get a better Rankingfor your blog!
2. WordPress Backup - Manage your own Wordpress Backup.
3. CodeBanter’sOptinBox - This plugin lets you add an Autoresponder Optin form to your blog from: GetResponse or AWeber to collect name and email address from your interested visitors. Important for “Back-End-Sales”.
4. GetRecentComments - Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar.
5. GoogleAnalytics For WordPress - This plugin makes it simple to add Google ANalytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your wordpress blog. Highly recommended to setup to track your wordpress traffic online.
6. GoogleXMLSitemaps - This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your wordpress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Highly recommended plugin to be installed to help make your blog friendly with Google.
7. MaxBlogPressPingOptimizer - Saves your wordpress blog from getting tagged as ping spammer by installing this plugin. Really important, to much pinging the same service will block your website as spam which can kill your blog!!!!
8. ShareThis - Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. This will drive massive traffic to your blog.
9. SimpleTags - Allows you to create a list of Technorati tags at the bottom of your post by providing a comma separated list of tags between the [tags] tags. You can use it with any blogging tool/method, not just when you posting from wordpress itself (doesn’t use custom fields). Supports multiple words within tags. Also allows in-post tagging of words by enclosing them in [tag] tags. Works with WYSIWIG editor.
10. Subscribe To Comments - Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
11. TwitterTools - A complete integration between your wordpress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. My favorite plugin!
12. Akismet - Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.

This list of wordpress plugins could be bigger and bigger, but not every plugin is needed. To many plugins causes your blog to load slowly and visitors will go away!

If you are interested in more plugins look here: Wordpress.org

Installing A WordPress Plugin

All wordpress Plugins install the same way.

1. Download the latest version of the wordpress Plugin to your computer.
2. With an FTP program (i.e. Filezilla), access your site’s server.
3. Upload (copy) the Plugin file or folder to the /wp-content/plugins folder.
4. In your wordpress Administration Panel or Dashboard, click on Plugins from the menu at the top.
5. Now you should see your new Plugin listed.
6. To turn the wordpress Plugin on, click Activate on the far right side of the list.
7. Check your Administration Panel or wordpress blog to see if the Plugin is working.